Senator McCauley. Yeah, I think we need to react to this and acknowledge that we've had probably the better part of a decade or more where Students have been able to have their phones in their pockets the entire time [for the better part of a decade or more]. It's basically a computer that they have in their pocket at any given time. There's well documented research out there documenting how distracting and how addicting some of the activities on the phones are. (09:33–09:44)
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